Analysis of Ascription
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860 (Douglas) – 1943 (Toronto)
O thou who hast beneath Thy hand
The dark foundations of the land,--
The motion of whose ordered thought
An instant universe hath wrought,--
Who hast within Thine equal heed
The rolling sun, the ripening seed,
The azure of the speedwell's eye.
The vast solemnities of sky,--
Who hear'st no less the feeble note
Of one small bird's awakening throat,
Than that unnamed, tremendous chord
Arcturus sounds before his Lord,--
More sweet to Thee than all acclaim
Of storm and ocean, stars and flame,
In favor more before Thy face
Than pageantry of time and space.
The worship and the service be
Of him Thou madest most like Thee,--
Who in his nostrils hath Thy breath,
Whose spirit is the lord of death!
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110111 01010101 01011101 1101011 11011101 010101001 0101011 01111 111110101 111101001 11010101 1010111 11111101 11010101 01010111 11001101 01000101 1111111 10110111 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 685 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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